Hawthorne tree at sunset, White Scars, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England

by Neale And Judith Clark

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Hawthorne tree at sunset, White Scars, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England

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Neale And Judith Clark

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Sunset tree - Hawthorne Tree growing through the Limestone Pavement at Sunset, White Scars beneath Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, England, GB, UK, Europe


Alamy ref: 2EC50TK


Ingleborough (723 m or 2,372 ft) is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks (the other two being Whernside and Pen-y-ghent), and is frequently climbed as part of the Three Peaks walk. On the western side of Ingleborough is a large limestone plateau appropriately known as White Scars
A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement.The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed distinctive surface patterning resembling paving blocks.
Conditions for limestone pavements are created when an advancing glacier scrapes away overburden and exposes horizontally bedded limestone, with subsequent glacial retreat leaving behind a flat, bare surface. Limestone is slightly soluble in water and especially in acid rain, so corrosive drainage along joints and cracks in the limestone can produce slabs called clints isolated by deep fissures called grikes or grykes. If the grykes are fairly straight and the clints are uniform in size, the resemblance to man-made paving stones is striking, but often they are less regular. Limestone pavements that develop beneath a mantle of topsoil usually exhibit more rounded form

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February 13th, 2021

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